Show venetians first to fo restore fading sight after visiting the university alon in rome home with its quaint and magnificent ent collections says a correspondent of the Bilt baltimore imore eye evening nang sup san there can remain no doubt la ones onelas mind as to the fact that italy has been the mother of spectacles professor I 1 Al bertotti a professor at the sity of padua and dean of the oculists ot of italy collected a number of ancient and modern books about spectacles and illustrated this valuable material in a treatise which he be dedicated to senator del lungo the latter had attributed the Invent invention loti of spec tor for shortsighted short sighted and long sighted iler sons to the dominican bonfe fra Alet sandro della spina of but professor Al Albert bertotti whose au It hority la this platter Is unchallenged la Is of the opinion that the glory of first arst ito making mailing spectacles must be attributed to venice the homo home of glass and pure ccrystal j crystal from the codex of the ca delta della artt artl of the state of venice dated 1201 it Is found that severe penalties were applied to dist dl honest spectacle makers who used elm aim ale glass instead Irr stead of pure pare crystal another document proving the ari an of spectacles is in a portrait of cardinal hugh or of province pointed painted by thomas of modena la in the chapter 0 of o st nicholas Hl chola at treviso in which the cardinal la Is represented as wearing j spectacles the tha minister of education signor signer fedele also lent a rare picture by the umbrian painter niccolo alun alan no the virgin and child with st jerome wh wap la Is reading a book with a largo large pair of spectacles acles aarm kis nose |